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FLINDERS, MATTHEW - THE NAMING OF AUSTRALIABiblio.com

Observations upon the Marine Barometer made during the Examination of the Coasts of New Holland and New South Wales in the years 1801 1802 and 1803.

1807réf. 47325London The Author 1807. 8vo. Contemp. calf rebacked with brown buckram. Title- and tomelabels with gilt lettering. Corners bumped. In: "A Journal of Natural Philosophy Chemistry and the Arts. By William Nicholson." Vol. XVI. - VIII3928 pp. a. 8 engraved plates. Entire volume offered. Flinders letter: pp. 107-118 a. pp. 173-182. Internally clean. Second printing of this important paper relating Flinder's observations on the ship "Investigator" when exploring the coast of Australia. IN THE PAPER THE NAME "AUSTRALIA" APPEARS PROBABLY FOR THE FIRST TIME IN A SCIENTIFIC MEMOIR here p. 118. The letter was first printed in Philosophical Transactions late in 1806 read to the Royal Society March 27. Nicholson reprinted it here in the February issue of the offered volume 16. 1807.The name Australia was popularised by Matthew Flinders who pushed for the name to be formally adopted as early as 1804. When preparing his manuscript and charts for his 1814 A Voyage to Terra Australis he was persuaded by his patron Sir Joseph Banks to use the term Terra Australis as this was the name most familiar to the public. Flinders did so but allowed himself the footnote:"Had I permitted myself any innovation on the original term it would have been to convert it to Australia; as being more agreeable to the ear and an assimilation to the names of the other great portions of the earth." In the paper offered he used the name "Australia" as early as 1806."Captain Matthew Flinders RN 16 March 1774 - 19 July 1814 was one of the most successful navigators and cartographers of his age. In a career that spanned just over twenty years he sailed with Captain William Bligh circumnavigated Australia and encouraged the use of that name for the continent which had previously been known as New Holland. He survived shipwreck and disaster only to be imprisoned for violating the terms of his scientific passport by changing ships and carrying prohibited papers. He identified and corrected the effect upon compass readings of iron components and equipment on board wooden ships and he wrote what may be the first work on early Australian exploration A Voyage to Terra Australis."Wikepedia hardcover

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[2/10th Battalion]. ALLCHIN, Lieutenant-Colonel FrankBiblio.com

Purple and Blue. The History of the 2/10th Battalion AIF the Adelaide Rifles 1939-1945

1958réf. 147254Adelaide: 2/10th Battalion Association 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Adelaide 2/10th Battalion Association 1958. Large octavo xxviii 454 pages with a map plus 32 pages of plates and 6 maps including a folding map mounted on the rear pastedown. Light blue cloth printed in purple a little marked and soiled; extremities slightly bumped and worn; a few minor marks and small edge tears internally; a few other signs of age and handling; a good copy internally very good. Provenance: Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Drummond Verrier DCM ED 1896-1974 first commanding officer of the 2/10th Battalion with his ownership details and gift inscription on the front endpaper. Verrier enlisted for service in the First World War in 1915 and served with the 10th Battalion and 50th Battalion. 'He was wounded in the Battle of Noriel Noreuil on the 2nd April 1917. In that action his conspicuous gallantry in leading his platoon under heavy fire against strong enemy positions won him the Distinguished Conduct Medal. Although he was wounded and his platoon suffered heavily the enemy positions captured had an important bearing on the success of the battle' Allchin pages 1-2. Between the wars he rose through the ranks of the Citizen Military Forces to command the 43rd Battalion before being appointed commanding officer of the 10th Battalion on the outbreak of war in 1939. The lengthy gift inscription to a relative dated 7 August 1965 gives a brief genealogy of the Verrier family; it is signed 'Arthur & Phil Phyllis Verrier'. Offered together with: A vintage gelatin silver photograph of Verrier as a sergeant circa 1917 wearing his Distinguished Conduct Medal 195 × 153 mm on card mount; the mount is marked a little worn with a heavy crease across it cracking the photograph. A gelatin silver photograph of Verrier during the Second World War 142 × 107 mm; creased with a few imperfections around the edges in an envelope inscribed in his hand 'To Kathie from Uncle Arthur. Colonel 2/10th Bn.' and dated '23/4/72' in another hand. 'The Dardanelles. An Epic told in Pictures' London The Alfieri Picture Service 1916 inscribed and signed 'Ruby H. Loxton from Arthur' card covers repaired with clear tape along the spine now neatly detached from the contnets. Dornbusch 414; Trigellis-Smith 372. 4 items. 2/10th Battalion Association hardcover

Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers · Australie1 000,00 $AU≈ 627,39 €

[GILES, Ernest] JESSOP, William RH R HBiblio.com

Flindersland and Sturtland; or The Inside and Outside of Australia

1862réf. 116508London: Richard Bentley 1862. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Richard Bentley 1862 first edition first issue. Octavo two volumes viii 289 and x 322 pages. Original navy blue textured cloth blocked in gilt and blind with the large kangaroo illustration on the front covers particularly striking; all edges uncut; covers a little bumped and marked with slight wear at the extremities and the spines a little tanned; trifling signs of age and use; overall an excellent set with the armorial bookplate of Edward Bennett on both front pastedowns and a very small inkstamp 'Knox Collection' on the verso of both title pages. An adventurous tourist's travels in Australia in the late 1850s and early 1860s 'A detailed description of the South Eastern part of Australia including station properties social conditions travel aborigines etc.' according to Ferguson but there's much more . In the second volume pages 233-50 Jessop records meeting two men at Wilpena 'on their way back to Adelaide with the results of a private exploration. The leader or scout was named Giles who was engaged by Mole a man of more energy than money to assist him in opening up some new part . They finally left the known country at Angipena and entered upon the unknown in the direction of north-west . They were absent about a month from Angipena and altogether going and coming passed over 1200 miles'. The meeting is recorded in some detail not least regarding contact with the Aborigines 'Giles said he was the first person in the Colony that vaccinated a black and that it happened on this occasion'. Wantrup notes that this expedition 'does not appear to be elsewhere recorded and dates at least ten years before Giles's career became a matter of public record. Jessop supplies no precise date but from the context it is clear that the expedition took place in the first half of 1859. Constituting the first appearance in print of the last of the great Australian explorers it is well worth adding to an exploration library'. Wantrup 2023 pages 346-7; not in McLaren; see Ferguson 10938-41. 2 items. Richard Bentley hardcover

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